Rohingya Muslims are facing an ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
Colin Kaepernick is unemployed because he decided to kneel while the national anthem played before games in protest of racial injustice, namely the string of police killings of unarmed black men, in the United States.
While frustrating and dangerous, these constant attacks on women’s bodily autonomy provide all the more reason to support facilities like Planned Parenthood.
The privilege of fully being oneself is harder for students with whom schools take issue — specifically black students, who are often disproportionately affected by dress code sanctions.
A new study found that most female characters could be removed from a film's narrative without significantly disrupting the plot. This suggests that even when women do show up in films, they don’t really have any agency.
Joe Arpaio, according to Trump, was the one cheated and attacked by the criminal justice system — not his victims.
YouTubers should treat the message of condemning assault as something important enough to stand independently from a childish vlog video.
Whedon’s behavior is not unlike many “feminist” men, which in turn points to a bigger problem: the way in which many male feminists use that identity to excuse themselves from wrongdoing.
Young activists are on the ground every day, fighting for and within their own communities in ways both big and small.
Black women are supposed to relate to and admire these two-dimensional characters, but in reality their lives are multi-dimensional: they’re real people who face obstacles outside of combating racism. Most black girls have gained enough life experience by adolescence to understand that “black girls are pretty, too” and “racism is wrong.” What we’re still grappling with is that being a black girl is still really hard because while we may believe those messages, the people we interact with on a daily basis don’t necessarily understand or believe those messages. And, of course, we are dealing with that racism at the same time that we deal with the everyday problems any other complicated person does.
Plenty of Texans didn’t have the privilege of choosing whether to stay or not. Fleeing is an unaffordable luxury for many.
Though substance abuse can affect anyone, members of the LGBTQ community are particularly susceptible because of the unique stresses they often experience in relation to coming out and/or the negative social stigmas surrounding their identities.
Saudi women are unable to exercise freedom in clothing, travel, work, or family. This reality led the World Economic Forum to rank Saudi Arabia 141 out of 144 countries in its 2016 report on the global gender gap.
In 2007, Anna Holmes created Jezebel.com, a website that revolutionized popular discussions around the intersections of gender, race, and culture. Since then, Holmes has had a wide-ranging career — she has contributed to The Washington Post and The New Yorker online and is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Over the past year, minorities have finally been represented in multiple highly acclaimed movies. Films such as Girls Trip, The Big Sick, and Get Out not only were critically acclaimed and financially successful, but told stories written by and about non-white characters. This representation has been evident in mainstream media beyond film, too...
How can we be less insulated? There isn’t a simple answer to this question, but it’s clear that in order to truly understand and recognize each other, we must want to understand and recognize each other.
Like so many other scientific concepts, there is mnemonic device for the modern stellar spectral classification scheme, also known as the Harvard Spectral Classification Scheme.
At the end of last month, the BBC was forced to reveal its employees’ salaries, and the results upset many—specifically, the considerable wage gap between its male and female employees. Two-thirds of the presenters who earned over £150,000 were men.
By now, most young feminist are aware of the well-documented efforts students have made to push back against sexist dress codes. Administrators and teachers across the country continue to shame their female students for wearing “revealing” tank tops and shorts, claiming their exposed skin “distracts” male students. These dress codes, young feminists claim, are an affront to feminist progress...
Detroit, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, takes place in the midst of the infamous 12th Street riot, which was sparked after the police raided an unlicensed club for African-American veterans in 1967....
Ava DuVernay has never been afraid to bring issues like race, the unjust U.S. “justice” system, mass incarceration, and the criminalization of African-Americans and other PoC to the forefront of her films. From the Oscar-winning film Selma to the highly acclaimed 2016 Netflix documentary 13th, DuVernay has examined how the criminal justice system is actively used as an oppressive tactic to repress and discriminate against the Black population....
In July of this year, Columbia University settled alleged rapist Paul Nungesser’s lawsuit against the school for gender-based discrimination. Nungesser was accused of raping then-fellow Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz, who gained attention for her 2014 performance-art piece Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight).
Historically, changes in military policies have been indicative of broader fights for social change in America. For example, the military’s desegregation in 1948 reflected the Civil Rights movement’s progress made around racial discrimination against African Americans, and the 2011 repeal of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” a policy that banned openly gay citizens from serving in the military, reflected the progress the LGBT movement had made (in fact, gay marriage was legalized soon after). So in the wake of this progress, it was all the more upsetting when Trump declared a ban on transgender people serving in the military last Wednesday.
The results of a recently published Georgetown Law study that found Black girls experience “adultification”—or are seen as older and less innocent than their white counterparts—might be surprising to some, but certainly not to those in the Black community. While this study isn’t the first to validate the inequitable experiences of Black women or Blackness in general, this study reflects the specific experiences of Black girls.